Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early Nazca bags in rich reds and greens, one with a rythmic pattern of liamas, and a splendidly designed polychrome vessel with a painting of lima bean shoots on it. Another vessel is ornamented with a serpent pattern. A large female figures from Chancay shows the sophistication of Peruvian coastal art about 1200 A.D. Four smaller figurines showing costume types complete the collection. Also on exhibit is another object of great rarity at present on loan in the Museum. It is the figure of a Jaguar carved in green turquoise in the Chavin style of about...
...individual commodity most affected by diversion of coastal and intercoastal shipping will be oil. Out of the U.S. fleet of 361 tankers, 50 will go to the shipping pool (25 at once, 25 later). This means the diversion of about 200,000 barrels a day (enough to fill 1,000 tank cars) to the railways. Shipping costs are 1.25 mills per ton mile by tanker, 3.2 mills by pipeline, 8.3 mills by rail. Pipelines cannot move all types of petroleum products, could not carry all the extra load anyway. Oilmen began worrying at once about moving next winter...
...outcome of the Japanese peace drive which was expected to follow the coastal investment would have direct bearing on the entire balance of the south Pacific. If China could hold out, Japan would be reluctant to move elsewhere. If not, the scramble would be on as soon as the Germans got the incontestable upper hand in the West. China's resistance now depended almost exclusively on U.S. aid and on a quality which no one used to think the Chinese had until they flaunted it for four years-guts...
Carolina Craters. Like the moon, the coastal plain of South Carolina and nearby States is pocked with countless craters. The natives call them "bays," perhaps be cause bay trees grow among the pine forests which often cover the swampy depressions, making them scarcely noticeable-they can be seen clearly only from the air. The craters are usually rimmed with sand, oval in shape, parallel and varying from a few hundred yards to three miles in longest diameter...
...Professor Johnson conceived the idea that the craters might once have been made by huge artesian springs now dried up. Long ago, when the Atlantic Coastal Plain first rose above sea level, there was as yet no surface drainage system to tap underground waters. Instead, the water bubbled up through the sandy soil. To test his theory, Professor Johnson re-explored the Carolina craters and found startling confirmation: old wave marks and runoff channels which geologists never noticed while they were blinded by a false hypothesis...